SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Preliminary Report Addressing "The Basics" Campaign

There is no better way to start this summary than to quote what David
Miscavige presented as his “summary” of all the things that were
supposedly wrong with the original publications and show how the things
that he listed are actually the things that HE did to undermine the
works of L. Ron Hubbard in creating his batch
of distorted books called
THE BASICS.

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Because
where it's headed is not just the full recovery
of the books but so much more including literally discovering lost
tech,
and I do mean hidden from view, that surrounds these books.

So once again, the question: how does one lose tech? MISUNDERSTOODS.
And whose were they? THE TRANSCRIPTIONIST’s. Yes, you heard me: the
transcriptionist’s. And here is what I mean. With a lecture, you hear
LRH and the words he said. In a policy letter, you read them as he
hand-wrote or typed them. Yet the books, with only one exception, were
dictated. Meaning, he spoke them into a tape recorder and they were
typed by a transcriptionist. You get LRH’s words as he or she relayed
them, and when that person had a misunderstood, you get this:
distortions, alterations and perversions, some little, some huge, but
every one of them – a hang up for the reader, and that’s why I said you
can look up every single word in one of these book and still not get it
because when you track it out across the entire LRH library, you get
such alterations as entirely missing chapters; total garbles; parts of
the text specifically said to be deleted by LRH but left in anyway
causing complete mystery; transcription errors whereby LRH dictates a
sentence and then replaces it with another, but the transcriptionist
was too lazy to go back and correct it leaving both sentences in the
book. And if that’s not enough, take your “garden variety”
transcription error where the typist isn’t sure whether they should
punctuate with a period, colon, or a comma and in almost every instance
deciding to go with a happy medium and using a semicolon – a total
“maybe” and resulting in sentences, indeed paragraphs, where you don’t
know where the sentence begins or ends. Now let’s add an editor, who
instead of now correcting it decides to add his own clarifying
footnotes to explain what LRH really meant or, through sloppiness,
misplacing pages and lord knows what else – mixes up the chapters so
some are not only in the wrong sequence, but entire chapters appear in
the middle of another chapter, and that’s just the beginning of the
list which explains why you’ll even if sometimes found LRH saying: “see
later text” and yet the text never appears, or he refers to a process
with a statement: “as described earlier” yet which never really did
appear earlier, and if you don’t remember any of these examples from
the books, that only makes my point – YOU WENT TOTALLY BLANK!
[audience standing up, clapping and cheering]

And if that’s a sampling, I assure you it’s not even a half of it, then
again you can be just as certain that I wouldn’t be standing here
telling you this unless each and every alteration, and I do mean every
distortion, perversion, and alteration has now been corrected.
[audience standing up, clapping and cheering]

8 pages
long original Preface detailing a specific route of training in
Scientology was removed from The
Creation of Human Ability
and replaced
with what looks like a letter from LRH less than a page in
length and containing no specific information on Scientology training
or on the use of the book. The Preface that
Miscavige eliminated also effectively exposes his "Basics"
program to force every parishioner to study all the basic
books (about a dozen) and hundreds of hours of lectures that accompany
them before having any thorough practice as being in DIRECT
CONTRADICTION to specific instructions left by the Founder, L. Ron
Hubbard.

"... total garbles... "

Many of the sentences and indeed entire paragraphs were reworded in
2007 editions actually resulting in "total garbles." A few simple
examples:

In The
Original Thesis a sentence "Workability
rather than Idealism has
been consulted." in 2007 was changed to "Workability
rather than Truth
has been consulted."

In Science
of Survival a phrase "the
individual descends the scale" in
2007 was changed to "the individual decreases
on the scale"; a phrase
"all unexpressed
resentment, anger, fear, grief, and apathy" was
changed to "all expressed
resentment, anger, fear, grief and apathy";
or how about "regardless of their ability
to quote Hamlet or play Bach
on the piano" in 2007 changed to "regardless
of their ability to quote Bach or play Hamlet
on the piano.”

These are just few examples. In Science of Survival
alone there are 200
some instances of alterations in wording alone – this is not
including literally
thousands of alterations in punctuation. By "instance" is meant a whole
sentence or a larger block of text that has various alterations in it,
not
single words that were changed which would obviously be a lot more than
200.

“... parts of the text specifically said
to be deleted by LRH but left in
anyway causing complete mystery...”

David Miscavige (re)introduced terms
Abnormal Dianetics and Dynamics Dianetics into The
Original Thesis – these are "dead”
phrases that are not clearly defined or used anywhere else in Ron
Hubbard’s works. At the same time David Miscavige DELETED a key
paragraph DEFINING AN "ENGRAM" – a key term at the core of the entire
subject of Dianetics.

"... take your
“garden variety” transcription error where the typist isn’t
sure whether they should punctuate with a period, colon, or a comma and
in almost every instance deciding to go with a happy medium and using a
semicolon – a total “maybe” and resulting in sentences, indeed
paragraphs, where you don’t know where the sentence begins or ends..."

The semicolon in Science
of Survival
was used according to the rules of
English grammar. Numerous “corrections” in punctuation actually
resulted in grammatical errors such as run-on sentences, comma splice,
and incomplete sentences that are missing either a subject or a verb –
this is to say nothing of inevitable distortion in meaning and emphasis
that came with changing punctuation. David Miscavige himself
"impressed" the audience by stating that there were 3825 "corrections"
in punctuation – this is in Science of
Survival alone.

"... Now let’s add an editor, who instead
of now correcting it decides to
add his own clarifying footnotes to explain what LRH really meant... "

There are practically NO clarifying footnotes in any of the original
publications. The overwhelming amount of footnotes throughout the books
appeared in the first batch of distorted books released within a few
years following the official death of the Founder in 1986. This is the
time when David Miscavige was already taking hold of the organization
as its new leader. Specifically, the excessive number of footnotes that
Miscavige flashed on the screen for Advanced
Procedure and Axioms was from 1989 edition
copyrighted under "L. Ron Hubbard
Library" [ISBN: 0-88404-419-X].

"... misplacing pages..."

David Miscavige took sections of text out of two chapters in the
beginning of
Fundamentals
of Thought and placed them toward the END of the
book. And just to mention it here, the very definition of Scientology
as a subject was re-written in Fundamentals of Thought,
and nearly all the references to Scientology being a "science" were
removed and in some instances replaced with a word "religion."

"... mixes up the chapters..."

For The
Original Thesis David Miscavige said that "... many
of the chapters as currently published were in the wrong sequence..."
where only ONE chapter was moved in 2007 edition and most likely
incorrectly so.

As was already stated, David Miscavige also removed the original
Preface from The
Creation of Human Ability
which provided specific instructions on how various parts of the book
were supposed to be used in training a new student in Scientology.
Instead, David Miscavige reorganized the chapters according to
chronological order of the various issues that comprised it. He also
placed a great bulk of them in the "References" section making it seem
like they were somehow optional or non-essential. Obviously, lacking
specific instructions from the Founder, new readers will now have no
idea as to the original purpose of those issues to begin with.

"... entire
chapters appear in the middle of another chapter..."

In Advanced
Procedure and Axioms David Miscavige simply took a
portion
of text form the end of chapter titled "Effort Processing" and
placed it in
the preceding chapter titled "Effort." During the event he showed an
animation to
convince the audience that one chapter "Effort Processing" was placed
within another "Effort" when in fact "Effort Processing"
naturally
FOLLOWED a chapter on "Effort." When you actually LOOK at the section
of text
that he moved, it becomes quite clear that the text belongs where it
was – at the end of "Effort
Processing" chapter. There was absolutely no reason for moving the text
other
then to fabricate some "proof" that there was something
wrong.

"... you’ll even if sometimes found LRH
saying: “see later text” and yet the
text never appears, or he refers to a process with a statement: “as
described earlier” yet which never really did appear earlier... "

So far no such instances were located in the original publications.

David Miscavige also bluntly lied to parishioners that in The
Evolution
of a Science there was some confusing footnote that
was "erroneously
included in all published editions" which had to be removed –
there is
NO such footnote in 1977 reprint which was used in this review.

David Miscavige then lied that the phrase "Life Continuum" was changed
to
"Life Continuation" in Handbook
for Preclears
and that "nobody's ever really known what it meant" because "it's not
in the book." BOTH PHRASES – Life Continuum and Life Continuation – can
be located in the very first
publication (1951) and in 1976 printing, and absolutely NOTHING CHANGED
in the
use of those phrases in a supposedly "corrected" 2007 edition. The
phrase "Life Continuum" was also in plain sight defined in Dianetics
and Scientology Technical Dictionary since its first
publication in 1975!

At this point you may want to ask yourself: if the books that are
publicly available and easily verified were so bluntly distorted
under false premises currently broadcasted straight from the official
Scientology website,
what could have been done to the training
materials and especially the confidential OT materials that are not as
readily available or easily verifiable as to their authenticity and
correctness? Perhaps, David Miscavige himself hints at the answer to
this question with another one of his statements during the event
(21:03 time
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As regards KSW, I’ve previously said the Golden Age of
Knowledge is the most embracive RTC program ever! Yes, even more than
Golden Age of Tech, Golden Age of Tech for OT’s arbitraries removed,
Ideal Orgs – you name it. The reason is obvious – without the
tech,
pure tech, nothing else is possible and nothing else matters. But if
you think anybody knew what it would entail when it came to the books…
No!
Nobody had a clue.

Is David Miscavige trying to say here is
that he
changed the TRAINING, the OT LEVELS, and
the ORGANIZATION itself in a similar wise as what he has done with
the books?